National Blog - page: 205

The Federal Reserve has decided to keep short term interest rates near zero, until at least the end of 2014, in hopes of encouraging Americans to borrow by making it easier to get more money to spend and invest. Obviously, our economy is still in [...]

Two important amendments to the Senate's omnibus Farm Bill, S. 3240, could come up for a vote as early as Tuesday evening, and I hope C4L members will take action to advance them.The first is Senate amendment (S.A.) 2220, which would exclude [...]

The board hand-picked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that must approve his ban of selling large sugar-filled drinks at restaurants might be looking at other targets."--Myfoxny.comIndividual libertyFox New York – Health Panel Talks About [...]

Yesterday, C4L's Matt Burrow and I attended the Joint Economic Committee hearing where Ben Bernanke was testifying on the current state of the economy.Two exchanges during the hearing are worth paying attention to. The first, was Senator Jim [...]

In a foreign policy speech before the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday, Senator Marco Rubio again displayed that he is nothing more than a neoconservative hawk who would love to send America's sons and daughters into a new field of [...]

This is not Afghanistan or Iraq or Iran, this is America and we have certain inalienable rights and one is to peacefully demonstrate. -- SalonIndividual LibertySalon--Armed Drones Over AmericaEconomyMarketWatch--Fed expected to twist [...]

As Cato's Gene Healy pointed out in an op-ed yesterday titled "Game of Drones," the Senate Armed Services Committee recently called for drones returning from Afghanistan to be used "freely and routinely" in U.S. [...]

Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them. In an [...]

On Jan. 28, 2009, a week after Obama’s nomination, the Fed owned $302 billion in U.S. Treasury securities. On April 25, 2012, the latest date reported, the Fed owned five and a half time that much in U.S. Treasury securities--$1.668 [...]

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon doesn't mince words when it comes to the war on drugs."It has been a failure," he told The Huffington Post. "It hasn't reduced drug use in any significant way. It's not good [...]